11 Deaths That Could’ve Been Avoided With Common Sense

10. Wiper Fluid Cocktail

Alright, so the Beer Store (a Canadian store that sells… beer) has truck drivers to deliver their product. And those drivers have big trucks with which to deliver said product. And those trucks have cleaners in order to keep the image of the company as shiny as the billboard trailers they haul across the country. Some drivers, for some reason, like to store certain liquids in certain bottles. Typically this is urine in pop bottles, but in this instance, someone decided to leave a special treat for a cleaner. Upon inspection of a truck, this specific cleaner found a bottle of blue vodka behind the driver’s seat. Thinking he’d come across a solid find, he stole what he assumed was the previous driver’s vodka. Not questioning that it was blue, not thinking to smell, and apparently lacking each and every one of his taste buds, the cleaner began swigging. Which was a very bad idea. He died two days later from methanol poisoning. He was drinking wiper fluid. The irony here is that if he had decided to actually start drinking some alcohol instead, the ethanol could have chanced to bond with the methanol, saving his life. Alas, he did not make it.